The Amp Garage

I have 100uF caps in my 100W D-amps. Plenty of bass and oomph for me. In my fender amps adding too much B+1 filtering made them stiff and difficult to play. (BTW, in one in particular I added 100 ohms in series with the power tube plates, loosening it right up while retaining the bass punch). You ma...

More a Rock application and rock sound. Its cool to hear a D-style amp in a different setting than jazz/blues. Sounds excellent in that context. Great sustain!

Jake

Nice bite and harmonics! Like the phrasing too.

Sounds bright for a Les Paul guitar, but it works really well.

Jake

6L6 for me too. Very sweet sound, with good harmonics. Really nice response from the amp!

Your'e too hard on yourself. The solo has dynamics and great touch, similar to LC himself.

How loud was the amp?

Jake

Cool clip and nice playing. No hint of Santana influence, eh?

Had the same thought.


I don't know how you guys get such a good sound close micing. My attempts sound horrible. Yours sounds much less boxy than my attempts. Nice tone, with some good fizz on top!

Hmm... I have to say, I like the HRM tone in the first clip a little better. Mids are fat on the higher notes to facilitate your horn-type phrasing. The term brassy has been used to describe dumble tones. Lately I've been thinking of NONHRM amps as tenors and HRM amps as altos. Maybe this is wrong, ...

Nice playing.

For me... the dynamics were excellent, with smoothness and chirpiness. The tone was appealing, but my ears wanted to hear the midrange hump either up or down a tad. This could just be an artifact of mic placement or amp settings...

Jake

OK... I spent a little while in the basement :D With my teles I get pretty close to the sound Scott posted with my NONHRM amp. Interestingly, the settings that get me closest are the same settngs I use when I try to cop the Handful of Blues tone with the Baker. Another suprising thing. After setting...

Thanks to both of you.

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Gil: I'll check it out.

I'm thinking about 25 feet for the footswitch chord.

Jake

I was thinking of this cable from mouser for the footswitch, 566-8445-100 Link: http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?Ntt=*5668445100*&N=1323038&Ntx=mode%2bmatchall&Ns=P_SField&OriginalKeyword=566-8445-100+&Ntk=Mouser_Wildcards Does this look right to you guys? Does anyone have another source for...

Maybe he has a stacked humbucker in the bridge?

I also agree with you all... great tonality but smoother than Robben's tone in this clip.

Jake

I haven't experimented with the 90s topology too much yet, so this just applies to 80s... It seems that I've had the greatest success when I focus on a specific frequency I'm targeting. At first altering component values doesn't seem to have too great an effect. However, as you start to hone in on y...

First clip for me. For lack of a better description the guitar is more exposed. Midrange hump is a little higher... In that regard, more of a HRM than non-HRM tone, which to me could mean less attitude, but more personality :wink: Yes, not has much of that classic dumble buzz, or hair, which puts mo...

One of your finest clips, me thinks!

Smooth verb, and the mids were just right. Maybe a little less high end sparkle than some other clips.

Some of your tastiest playing too!!!!

Jake

Ok.. So caps that are grounded, have the outside foil towards ground? caps in tone stacks have the outside foil towards the tone pots? coupling caps have the outside foil towards the next stage? Is that about right? Here's my understanding. The outer foil serves as a shield from ambient noise. When...